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HE BIVARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION helps us make the important leap from the univariate normal to the more general multivariate normal distribution. To accomplish this, we need to make the transition from the scalar univariate notation of the previous chapter to the matrix notation of the following chapter.

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Zelterman, D. (2015). Bivariate Normal Distribution. In: Applied Multivariate Statistics with R. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14093-3_6

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